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J. E. CARTER. NON-FREEZING HYDRANT.

No. 83,602. Patented Nov. 3, 1868.

city-mains; but my inven gian /5' IAMESE. CARTER, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

Letters Patch-t No. 83,602,

dated November 3, 1868.

DEPROYEIMENT IN' NON-FREEZING- HYDRAIITS.

The Schedule referred to in a. Latte rs Patent and. making pm or thesame.

Teen whom it mwy concern Be it known that I, J AMES E. CARTER. ofPortland.

county of Cumberland, and State of Maine, have invented a new and usefulMethod of Preventing Hydrants from Freezing; and I do'hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of thisspecification, in which is represented a sectional elevation of ahydrant with my invention attached,

My invention is intended to be attached to cityhydrants of the ordinaryconstruction, and prevent them from freezing. It consists of a gas-pipeleading from the street-mains, to which is attached a burner, a, of anyknown construction.

It is intended to place the hydrants under the charge of the police, whowill use their discretion when to light the gas and when to turn it oh,a door or aperture, b, being cut in the shell of the hydrant for thatpurpose.

I do not claim a gas-jet; neither do I claim heating water or anysubstance by the use. of a flame of iupplying the jet from the. ionrelates to an improved,

gas; neither do I claim and moreusefiilhydrant and one not subject tothe accident of freezing. I do not claim lamp or gas-jets when appliedto tubes in anyposition, nor for heating or culinary'purposes; neitherdo I claim the application of lamp or gasets for any of the purposes towhich they have been heretofore applied; but my invention relates to animproved hydrantalon'e in which shell or envelope, so that they areprevented from freezing under the ground, by being located below thereach of the frost or cold, and are also rendered free from theliability to freeze above the ground, or in the shell or stock of thehydrant, by the protection of the shell or case, and by the burning ofthe gas-jet located and arranged as herein described. It is my purposeto limit my application to the arrangementand combination, in a hydiaut,of the devices or parts described.

WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The improved hydrant, having the'gas and waterpipes combined andarranged within the shell or stock of the same, from their respectivemains upward, as and for the purposes set forth.

JAS.- E. CARTER.

Witnesses:

HENRY T. CARTER, FRANK ,W. LIBBY.

the gas and water-tubes are brought upin the same I

